How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?
How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
In politics nothing is contemptible.
Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.
Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
Only the contemptible fear contempt.
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories